bord

See board.

bord (plural bords)

1. Obsolete form of board. [11th–17th c.]
   • 1898, Herbert William Hughes, A Text-book of Coal-mining, page 154:

     A jenkin is then carried up the pillar alongside the old bords […]

2. Obsolete form of bourd. [14th–17th c.]

• bourde

From board, which is also a less common variant of bord; probably from the former practice of laying boards in mine passageways to form a relatively smooth surface along which the coal was dragged in sledges.^[1]

bord (plural bords)

1. (mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.

• rob'd

Inherited from Late Latin burdus ("bastard").

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈboɾt]

bord (feminine borda, masculine plural bords, feminine plural bordes)

1. bastard

   Synonyms: bastard, expòsit, (archaic) bordegàs

2. (botany) false
3. barren, not yielding fruit (of a fruit tree)

• embordonir
• rebordonir

bord m (plural bords, feminine borda)

1. bastard

   Synonyms: bastard, expòsit

• bordegàs

Borrowed from Spanish bordo, from Frankish *bord. Doublet of borda.

bord m (plural bords)

1. (nautical) board (side of a ship)
2. (nautical) gunwale

   Synonym: borda

• a bord
• d'alt bord
• de bord

• babor
• estribor

• “bord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Old English bord (“board”).

bord m (plural bordys)

1. (Revived Late Cornish) A table

   Synonym: moos

• bord gwynn

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːˀr/, [ˈb̥oˀɐ̯], [ˈb̥oɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: bor

From Old Norse borð, from Proto-Germanic *burdą, cognate with English board, German Bord.

bord n (singular definite bordet, plural indefinite borde or (in the sense “plank”) bord)

1. A table, desk
3. A plank (in a ship)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bord

1. imperative of borde

From Middle Dutch bort, from Old Dutch *bort, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą. Doublet of boord (“board of a ship”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔrt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bord
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

bord n (plural borden, diminutive bordje n)

1. a plate, dish (cutlery)
2. a plank, board (as in "blackboard" (see schoolbord) or as in "chessboard" (see schaakbord))
3. a sign (traffic, etc.)

• berd

• Afrikaans: bord
• Negerhollands: bort
• → Caribbean Hindustani: bort
• → Caribbean Javanese: bort
• → Papiamentu: bòrchi (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: bortu

Inherited from Old French bord, from Frankish *bord.

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ/

• Au bord de:

  (file)

bord m (plural bords)

1. a border, edge, limit ; boundary
2. a side
3. a rim
4. a shore

• → Portuguese: borda

• “bord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bórd (obsolete)

From Middle Irish bord (“border, board”) (compare Manx boayrd, Scottish Gaelic bòrd), from Old English bord (“plank, table”).

• IPA^(key): /bˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠɑuɾˠd̪ˠ/
• (Connemara) IPA^(key): /bˠəuɾˠd̪ˠ/

bord m (genitive singular boird, nominative plural boird or borda)

1. A board
   1. table

      Synonym: (Ulster) tábla

2. A board, panel (of experts, etc.), council
3. (topography) border
4. (nautical) board, side
5. gunwale
6. deck
7. load

• Alternative plural form: borda (used in certain prepositional phrases)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bord”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bord”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bord”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Inherited from Old English bord.

• borde, boorde, boord, burd, bourd, bourde, burde

• IPA^(key): /boːrd/, /bɔrd/

bord (plural bordes or borden)

1. A board or slab (usually of wood)
2. A piece of wood for writing upon.
3. A table (especially one used for craftsmanship).
   1. (religion) An altar; a table used for religious purposes.
   2. A dining table or its surface.
4. A serving or helping of food and drink; nourishment.
5. A seafaring vessel; a boat.
6. The direction a boat is headed in.
7. A shield (board of protective armour).

• borden
• bordcloth
• cuppeborde
• schip bord

• English: board
• Scots: buird, brod
• Yola: borde

• “bō̆rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-02.

bord

1. Alternative form of bourde

bord

1. Alternative form of bourden

Borrowed from Old Norse borð.

bord m (plural bords)

1. (Jersey, nautical) board (side of a ship)

From Old Norse borð, from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

• IPA^(key): /buːɽ/; IPA^(key): /buːɾ/
• Homophones: bol; bor

bord n (definite singular bordet, indefinite plural bord or border, definite plural borda or bordene)

1. A table (furniture)
2. A wooden board; plank

From Middle Low German borde (“border, edge, hem”), possibly from Old Saxon *borda.

• IPA^(key): /bord/

bord m (definite singular borden, indefinite plural border, definite plural bordene)

1. border (decorative strip)

• “bord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse borð, from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

• IPA^(key): /buːr/, /buːɽ/
• (Trøndelag, Toten) IPA^(key): /buːɭ/ (see bol)

bord n (definite singular bordet, indefinite plural bord, definite plural borda)

1. (furniture) A table
2. A wooden board; plank

From Middle Low German borde. Akin to English border and German Borte.

bord m (definite singular borden, indefinite plural bordar, definite plural bordane)

1. border (decorative strip)

   Synonym: borde

• “bord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “bord” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

• IPA^(key): /bord/, [borˠd]

bord n

1. board, plank
2. table
3. the side of a ship; (by extension) the ship itself

   Sē frumlida stāg on bord þæs sċipes.

   The captain climbed aboard the ship.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"

     Hīe cwǣdon, "Hū dōþ wē ymb þē?" Hē andwyrde, "Weorpaþ mē ofer bord."

     They said, "What are we going to do about you?" He answered, "Throw me overboard."

4. (poetic) shield

• bred

• → Cornish: bord
• Middle English: bord
  • English: board
  • Scots: buird
  • Yola: borde
• → Old Irish: bord
  • Middle Irish: bord
    • Irish: bord
    • Manx: boayrd
    • Scottish Gaelic: bòrd
• → Middle Welsh: bort
  • Welsh: bord
• → Middle Welsh: bwrð
  • Welsh: bwrdd

Borrowed from French bord.

bord n (plural borduri)

1. side of a ship's deck

From Old Norse borð, from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

• IPA^(key): /buːɖ/

• Audio:

  (file)

bord n

1. A table (a piece of furniture)
2. (nautical) A plank used in the side of a hull, a strake

• tabell (“table (other senses)”)

• bord in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bord in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bord in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bord in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Borrowed from English board.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈboɾd/ [ˈboɹd̪]
• Rhymes: -oɾd
• Syllabification: bord

bord (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. board (long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material)
2. board (surface for a board game)

   Synonym: tabla

3. board (short for blackboard, whiteboard, etc.)

   Synonym: pisara

4. board (managing committee)

   Synonyms: lupon, kalupunan, konseho, hunta

5. board (regular meals or amount paid for them in a place of lodging)

   Synonym: pagkain

From Middle Welsh bort, from Old English bord (“board”); doublet of bwrdd.

• IPA^(key): /bɔrd/
• Rhymes: -ɔrd

bord f (plural bordydd)

1. (South Wales) table (item of furniture)

   Synonym: bwrdd

2. food and drink, hospitality, sustenance
3. (nautical) side (of a ship)

• y Ford Gron (“the Round Table”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bord”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies